ralphpnj;328524 Wrote: > Sorry to say that the article appeared in the July/August 2007 issue. > > > > I take your comment to mean that the audiophiles would be all up in > arms about over this article. After all the article is filled with > transgressions against the standard audiophile dogma: lossy compressed > audio sounding better than full resolution audio and losslessly > compressed audio, and several mentions of double blind testing. > > Let me throw the ball back into your court. > > Audiophiles are often derided for not believing in measurements, two > classic examples of this are 1) the love of analog over digital since > on paper and via test measurements digital as some very clear > advantages over analog (signal to noise ratio, no generational losses, > etc) and 2) the love of tube electronics when solid state electronics > have much better test measurements. > > Now in the case of audiophiles preferring uncompressed or losslessly > compressed audio over lossy compressed audio, where the superiority of > uncompressed or losslessly compressed audio has been proven over and > over by measurement, the audiophiles are once again being taken to > task. > > My question to you, Mr. Nonreality, is why is this happening? > > Audiophiles are criticized for not believing in measurements but then > when they do believe in measurements they are laughed at? After all, > along with double blind testing, measurements are the twin pillars of > the objectivist's own dogma. > > So what gives?My point was in the reaction not the reality of whether this > article was true or not. There was not a discussion of the article just deriding comments about it and the author and by default the OP. I believe my comments are accurate from the start.
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